Deputies seek 'person of interest' in Hawthorne slaying

Naquia Catching, 22, was found stabbed to death inside her mother's… (DMV )

A “person of interest” has been identified in the fatal stabbing of a 22-year-old woman inside her mother’s apartment in Hawthorne, Los Angeles County sheriff’s officials said Friday.

About 7:30 p.m. Thursday, the mother of Naquia Catching walked into the apartment in the 4800 block of West 118th Street and found Catching dead, said Lt. Eddie Hernandez with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.

Catching lived at the apartment with her mother, her mother’s estranged boyfriend and their 9-year-old daughter, Hernandez said.